Quote by Roman de la Rose

"Entre ces boutons en eslui Un si trés bel qu'envers celui Nul des autres rien ne prisai, Puis que je l'oi bien avisé, Car une color l'enlumine Qui est si vermeille e si fine Con Nature la pot plus faire. De fueilles i ot quatre paire, Que Nature par grant maistire I ot assises tire a tire; La queue est droite come jons, E par desus siet li boutons Si qu'il ne cline ne ne pent. L'odor de lui entor s'espant: La soatume qui en ist Toute la place replenist. E quant jou senti si flairier, Je n'oi talent de repairier, Ainz m'aprochasse por le prendre, Se j'i osasse la main tendre."

— Roman de la Rose

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot

Unverified quote

0 likes

Poetry

Original Language: English

Available Languages (1)

English (Original)

Sources

Among these buds I singled out one that was so very beautiful that, after I had examined it carefully, I thought that none of the others was worth anything beside it; it glowed with a color as red and as pure as the best that Nature can produce, and she had placed around it four pairs of leaves, with great skill, one after the other. The stem was straight as a sapling, and the bud sat on the top, neither bent nor inclined. Its odor spread all around; the sweet perfume that rose from it filled th

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roman_de_la_Rose

Revision History

No revisions have been submitted for this quote.

Roman de la Rose

' (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in and presented as an allegorical dream vision. It was written in two stages by two authors: Guillaume de Lorris composed the first part (4,058 verses) around 1230, and Jean de Meun composed the second part (17,722 additional verses) around 1275.

20 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Roman de la Rose →